Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee peddle new COVID conspiracy theories

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are busy peddling new evidence-free conspiracy theories. Do their latest fantasies involve Chinese weather balloons, or the “Biden crime family?” No. They’re about COVID and the resulting lockdowns. Like the ones that actually happened under Donald Trump? Nope—they’re brand-new pretend ones.

Maybe you’ve heard that a new COVID-19 variant known as EG.5 is spreading across the country. Hospitalizations have been on the rise since July, with a 14% increase during the first week of August alone. Coupled with the World Health Organization monitoring another new variant, known as BA.2.86, COVID headlines have increased as of late. The good news is that the total number of hospitalizations is down from where we were last year at this time, but the emergence of new variants and a resulting rise in hospitalizations are important pieces of public health information to share with Americans.

But according to Lee and Greene, these news reports are another example of the Joe Biden-controlled “deep state” trying to control the population. What’s their evidence? An InfoWars article and a blog by a guy whose moniker is “Tyler Durden.” (Yes, that’s the name of the uber-misogynist main character in the Chuck Palahniuk novel “Fight Club.”

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